sandheap

In the middle of the sandheap was a pit, which appeared to be somebody's grave; and somewhere in the background, on the far side of the pit, stood Mrs Bosenna and

Hocken and Hunken Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

The Boers promptly intrenched themselves behind a sandheap, and from thence kept up a hot fusilade.

South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 Louis Creswicke

You leave me unanswered for six whole weeks, and at the end you send me this incoherent sandheap, when your promises had given me the right to expect a solid piece of well-worked marble.

Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

He was a common loafer, under a false name, down on a sandheap washing dishes.

The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

The men each took a drink, Wellesly finished the liquor and threw the empty flask on a sandheap beside the road.

With Hoops of Steel Florence Finch Kelly 1898

a municipality of art an 'beauty it was a red-hot fizzle, but as a red-hot, sizzling sandheap it was the leader of the world.

Kilo : being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent Ellis Parker Butler 1903